Joe Biden's Clinton 'diss' wasn't so bad

Headlines everywhere popped up Friday morning proclaiming that former Vice President Joe Biden had called out Hillary Clinton at a conference Thursday night.
Image: Washington PostTwitter certainly noticed.
"'I never thought she was the correct candidate,' Biden said at the SALT conference"Fitting, Biden got salty at the SALT conference.
— Dave Dinoff (@ddinoff) May 19, 2017
This was pointless. No one comes out of this looking better than if Biden had simply kept his mouth shuthttps://t.co/nwThXIIb5H
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) May 19, 2017
But if you look a bit closer at what Biden said at the SALT conference in Las Vegas and include the context — not just the portion where he says, "I never thought she was a great candidate. I thought I was a great candidate," — it's less of a diss and more of an analysis of the 2016 election. Read more...More about Election 2016, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Salt Conference, and Us World

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Headlines everywhere popped up Friday morning proclaiming that former Vice President Joe Biden had called out Hillary Clinton at a conference Thursday night.

Image: Washington Post

Twitter certainly noticed.

"'I never thought she was the correct candidate,' Biden said at the SALT conference"Fitting, Biden got salty at the SALT conference.

— Dave Dinoff (@ddinoff) May 19, 2017

This was pointless. No one comes out of this looking better than if Biden had simply kept his mouth shuthttps://t.co/nwThXIIb5H

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) May 19, 2017

But if you look a bit closer at what Biden said at the SALT conference in Las Vegas and include the context — not just the portion where he says, "I never thought she was a great candidate. I thought I was a great candidate," — it's less of a diss and more of an analysis of the 2016 election. Read more...